Don Juan DeMarcus Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body that it could squirt blood 30 feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Nothing much else to do on a Sunday - I find it's a good way of consoling yourself after a defeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarySTFC Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 I get the feeling we'll be doing that a bit this season <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It to Beaver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 The fastest tectonic movement on Earth, 9.4 inches (24 cm) per year, is at the Tonga microplate near Samoa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 The world's fastest ship weighs 112 tons and travels at 102 miles (164 km) per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJ-STFC Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Space Fact - 3 The engines powering Saturn V consumed 40,000 gallons of fuel a minute. When first tested, people could hear the noise 100 miles away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma-STFC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 In the late 1950s Lincoln City had a defender named Ray LONG who was over 6 feet tall, and a left winger called David SHORT, who was only 5ft 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Juan DeMarcus Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Dixie Dean and Jimmy Greaves, were both aged exactly 23 years 290 days, when they both scored their 200th league goals! Cool fact! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Juan DeMarcus Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 A Turkish truck driver, Nazim Canturkas, lit a match underneath the fuel tank of his truck when his fuel tank froze, according to fire fighters who were there to put out his truck. One of the fire fighters said, with great understatement, that he used a "very dangerous technique" to overcome his problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 In 1994 Los Angeles police arrested a man for dressing as the Grim Reaper - complete with scythe - and standing outside the windows of old people's homes, staring in!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 There are no words in the English language that rhyme with silver, orange, or month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Italian mathematician Geronimo Cardano published the laws of chance governing card & dice games. But he became most famous for his accurate horoscope predictions. He even predicted his own death in 1576 - even down to the exact hour. When the time came he was still healthy, so he killed himself rather than being proved wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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